Jon Chu - Variety500 - Top 500 Entertainment Business Leaders

"Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon M. Chu and Thai helmer Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya have boarded Netflix's planned retelling of last year's dramatic rescue of a boys' soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand. Chu and Poonpiriya, who directed Asian hit film "Bad Genius," are partnering with Netflix and SK Global Entertainment on the story after the 13 Thumluang Company Limited granted the streaming giant and SK Global rights to the saga, which Variety reported last month. The project, which...

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